Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is an exceptional and promising edited collection related to massive open online courses and open education resources. E-learning has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the Internet makes available practicable forms of communication and interaction which are essential for learning technology. There are not many trends in technology-enhanced learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It has become impossible to cover these MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a response to global increases in the demand for teaching and online education. These massive open courses are surely a powerful change agent influencing blended learning today.

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual scientists academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge edited collection investigates many big changes in MOOCs. This breathtaking new book also investigates open educational resources (OERs) and online education subjects. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. This book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5. For more info about this 2015 edited collection please see this open education books website.

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